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No it doesn't but it means you cannot allow them to influence you.
and no they wouldn't have, it would have meant drafting in hundreds of officers in case things turned violent. You are right it wasn't a man.

FE- The inconsistencies are glaring. To glorify in the death(s) of police constables gets a prison sentence. But do the same for a soldier and at best its a fine. The number of people involved is an irrelevance. You either believe in the rule of law or you dont.

It's not just the police who are human beings; soldiers are too. And I think they deserve just as much respect as the police do.

"There's a difference between not showing emotions and not acting emotionally."

No there isn't. When you cry you are both showing emotion and acting emotionally - it's an involuntary response.

Police officers are no different to other people in that respect, and we would be naive in the extreme to expect otherwise. What police officers must do is to try to control emotional responses that might result in them crossing the legal line, or might mean a suspect avoiding arrest.

Seeing an individual parading around as this person was, shortly after two colleagues had been deliberately shot dead in the execution of their duty would trigger an emotional response in any police officer. It's a different situation to the one where a group of people are staging a demonstration against an ideology. We will all have an emotional response to that kind of situation, but police officers are there to prevent a breach of the peace, not to cause one.

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